Rokesh is an Indian lyricist working on Tamil language films, who specialises in song lyrics containing

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Career

Rokesh worked as a machine operator in the Parry's area of Chennai and had established a reputation for being a gana songwriter in his local area,

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. Rokesh was first introduced to

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by Kiran, who worked as the art director for Anand's film ''

Anegan ''Anegan'' (; ) is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language period action romance thriller film directed by K. V. Anand, and produced by Kalpathi S. Aghoram, S. Ganesh, S. Suresh under the banner AGS Entertainment. The film features an ensemble cast starr ...

'' (2015). The director - music director duo gave Rokesh a list of 150 words of North Madras specific vocabulary for reference and explained the situation for a song, and Rokesh returned with the final version of "Danga Maari" during the next day. He has since gone on to write songs for other films including '' Maari'' and ''

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'' (2015).

Filmography

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rokesh Tamil film poets Indian lyricists Living people 1993 births